Community Tasting Notes 17

• BenBlu Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 26, 2024 - A very strong bottle after a couple which made me believe this was thinning out and on the way down. This bottle was a different beast. CLB hallmark dark sexy cherry fruit in spades. A touch of reduction in the nose. Very full throttle fruit on the mid palate and while ripe still enough sap here, some savoury elements coming through too touch of bay leaf, gravel notes. I think CLB did really well in 09 (but then which vintage did he not?)… great bottle and this particular bottle will hold for a decade for sure so maybe I park my last two bottles for a bit if I can keep my hands off. Then again one wonders especially for the village if drinking them on the young side is advisable while the winemaker signature is still prominent which I really dig and ultimately I would assume that a village while aging well will loose that and possibly succumb to being “just” what it is, a nice Vosne village rather than something that transcends the level which this does at present.

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• BenBlu Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 9, 2023 - Back to form for this wine (bottle 501 / 2560). A pronounced acidity for the vintage in fact, a faint hint of reduction, and then ripe / sweet attack of macerated cherries on the nose - the palate is a touch more taut and composed. It's not a wine with a long finish but it's just drinking well right now and should hold for 5 years but I would be hesitant to lay it aside for much longer as I feel the fruit will get pushed back too much.

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• BenBlu wrote: 90 points

  April 11, 2023 - Felt like a root day for this wine. After a great showing in 2019 this slightly disappointed and was a touch sour and tired without following through on the fruit. What's good news is that another recent bottle showed much better so it was either the evening or the bottle of both.

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• Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 13, 2020 - Bright red fruit. Good concentration and texture. This got better with an hour of air out from the bottle (no decant). Mix of red and dark berries, some spice, more nuanced. Really good village level effort.

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• johnh1001 wrote: 90 points

  June 17, 2020 - Closed on the nose but great energy on the palate. A bit foursquare by Liger standards, but very impressive.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Vosne-Romanée

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• In Cellars 174 (67%)
• Consumed 84 (33%)

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